The Independent - London, December 23rd, 2000
When she was asked recently for her all-time favourite Christmas TV moment, Victoria Wood chose the celebrated Morecambe and Wise sketch featuring Andre Previn. "It was so well written," she said. "And a rare example of a celebrity playing himself successfully." Both the choice and the reason for it reveal much about the comedienne.
Victoria Wood has been playing the role of Victoria Wood the celebrity since the early Eighties, when, after many a false dawn, her television career finally pulled out of the siding in which it had stalled in the mid-Seventies. From the BBC series Wood and Walter...
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